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„Dic Kalkkr)rper zoigou alio Uobergange zwischen don von Solcnka 

 abgobiklctcu unci denjonigen, welclie ich friiher von dor von mir 

 aufgestellfcon Art //. deprcs^a gab" (Ludwig 1883, p. 173). ,,Die 

 Tontakelsclicibon und dor Kalkring sind von inittloror Ci rosso ; die 

 Intcrradialia dcs Ictztcrcn so broit als die Uadialia boch sind. 

 TcntakoLunpiiUcu kkun. CrviER'scbe Organc braun, blinddarm- 

 forniig. Kloako ini Inncni nicbt i>igmontirt" (Selenka p. 327). 

 Poliau vesicle single, 3 cm. long ; tbc single dorsal stono-canal 

 free in the body-cavity and 1 cm. long. 



licmarks : — The distinction between the dorsal and the ventral 

 surfaces is marked in all the specimens. The ventrnm is in all 

 crowded with numerous pedicels and is, except in the Ogasawaia speci- 

 mens of an ashen-white color. In the Ogasawara specimens, which 

 are all young, being 4.5 — 7 cm. long, the coloring of the whole body 

 is considerably darker and the ventrum shares in the deep shad- 

 ing, resembling, I imagine, the Lucipara specimen which Sluitek 

 studied. The dorsum has fewer papilla?, is of a more or less 

 brown color, and diflers considerably in coloratit»n in diirerent 

 specimens ; l)iit 1 believe the last fact is due in a large degree to 

 the state of preservation rather than to original differences 

 in the si)ecimens themselves. The specimen from Kagoshima, (No. 

 lUol), which is at present 13 cm. long, has the dorsum uniform- 

 ly liglit brown with darker brown spots marking the posi- 

 tion of the contracted pa[)ilhi'. There is a suggestion of a median 

 longitudinal darker baud of no definite I>readth. This seems to 

 correspond best with Selenka"s original description. In the speci- 

 men from Aburatsubo (No. 1055, at present 12 cm. long, in life 

 18 -20 cm.), of which a rough sketch mad(^ from lif(^ by my as- 

 sistant, Mr. TsucniDA, remains, the dorsum has a light brown 

 gi'ound color. On this, a not sharply marked longitudinal median 



